The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 90

When he had traveled a great way to the south, he came to a drying lake; and there, dying in the mud, was a little fish.

Who acts: boy · What happens: travel, come, die, be · To what, where: great way, drying lake, little fish

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Accursed Lake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 traveled	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 traveled	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 traveled	aux
4	traveled	travel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 came	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 traveled	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 south	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 south	det
10	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 way	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 traveled	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 lake	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lake	det
16	drying	drying	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lake	compound
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 there	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 there	cc
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 came	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dying	punct
22	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 came	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 mud	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mud	det
25	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dying	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fish	punct
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fish	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fish	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fish	amod
30	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	past · perfect	boy	a great way		to the south	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
2	come	past	boy		a drying lake		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
3	die	gerund	boy not said here			in the mud	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in mud=Attribute
4	is a	past		a little fish			tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 90

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Accursed Lake, sentence 90